Goethe's Allegories of Identity

Contents

c o n t e n t s PART I. THE PRoBLEM 1 Chapter 1. Representing Subjectivity 3 Chapter 2. Goethe Contra Rousseau on Passion 18 Chapter 3. Goethe Contra Rousseau on Social Responsibility 35 PART II. ExPERIMENTS IN SUBJECTIvITY 53 Chapter 4. The Theatrical Self 57 Chapter 5. The Scientific Self: Identity in Faust 77 Chapter 6. The Narrative Self 95 PART III. THE LANGUAGE oF INTERIoRITY 119 Chapter 7. Goethe’s Angst 123 Chapter 8. “Es singen wohl die Nixen”: Werther and the Romantic Tale 143 Chapter 9. Goethe and the Uncanny 160 Conclusion: Classicism and Goethe’s Emotional Regime 180 vi contents Notes 189 Works Cited 211 Index 219 Acknowledgments 231 For Marshall, Dorrit, and Benedict This page intentionally left blank ...